Future Armada: Invictus

Invictus is the flagship of the Confederation fleet and the first of its kind (so technically it is an “Invictus-class” vessel). At almost 2400 ft long, the ship carries 200 fighters, 40 boarding shuttles, and a 1500 crew, soldiers, and passengers. It is designed to rapidly deploy combat craft and serve as a long range missile platform – allowing it to command a battle well back from the lines while still contributing massive firepower to the fight.

Invictus expands and improves upon the technologies developed for the Argos III station. The Sendai Component System was employed for most of its habitable areas. The same Transportation Tube technology is used to move personnel efficiently about the ship and similar gravitic redirectors are employed to propel the carrier. As on Argos III, rotation is used to efficiently simulate gravity in the habitation rings, but in other areas grav plating is employed. The landing and launch mechanisms are unique to this class of carrier.

Invictus reuses many of the map tiles from Argos III and adds several more of its own - increaseing the possible customization of both products, and giving the ambitious GM even more to work with in creating his or her own unique facilities. The pages used from Argos III are reproduced here so that everything needed to map out Invitus is included in this supplement.

Please note that, unlike many issues of Future Armada, this installment does NOT contain giant composite images designed for an oversized printer. As with the other giant ships and stations, the extreme file size required for a ship of this size makes the inclusion of such bonus maps infeasible.

Invictus can serve as a base of operations from which to run a campaign, or a detailed location to drop into your ongoing story. As always, familiar OGL stats are provide but kept separate. When it comes to capitol ships, this one can't be beat!

The best ship deck plans ever, and for seven bucks you get a huge ship. Very, very nice. Not just a ship, though; print up (I use them as jpegs with MapTool) certain deck plans, and label them Part of Outpost or Factory Control Areas, and you're [...]

The Future Armada series is awesome! Each set includes a detailed write-up of one or two ships, including diagrams, deck plans, and d20 stats. The deck plans are provided in a small-scale image so that you can see the whole layout of the ship on a sing [...]

An excellent PDF as I've come to expect from this series. The modular design of the deckplans adds flexibility especially when combined with the Argos III station. The design of the product is very good. The quality of each individual tile is ve [...]

Ryan Wolfe is the king of starship deckplans. No one else can touch what he does with his Future Armada series, and most PDF publishers are smart enough not to try to compete directly. In Latin, the word "Invictus" means "unconque [...]

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